Guest guest Posted November 13, 2000 Report Share Posted November 13, 2000 RR Rutledge, M.D., F.A.C.S. The Center for Laparoscopic Obesity Surgery 4301 Ben lin Blvd. Durham, N.C. 27704 Telephone #: Fax #: Email: DrR@... ************************************************ Please Visit our Web site: http://clos.net ************************************************ Please join the Mini-Gastric Bypass Community at http://clos.net/forms/mailinglist_form.htm Get the Mini-Gastric Bypass Patient Education Manual http://www.clos.net/get_patient_manual.htm abuse > Dr R and Blair, > > I just found out something interesting. It seems that all ISPs have a abuse > policy and if anybody complains that one of their customers is harassing them, > they will warn the person, and if repeated complaints are received, that > person will be thrown off the ISP. > > Thus, I think that LT can be stopped from sending her harassing messages to > all the members of the Mini-gastric bypass list. Here's how: > > 1. Have Dr Rutledge or someone speaking for him (a co-moderator, whatever) > post a message publically on the list, requesting that LT not write emails to > any member of the Mini Gastric bypass mailing list. > > 2. As soon as LT writes someone, that person should take the public message > requesting LT not to write and the email from LT and send to the address > below, complaining that LT (lindat@...) is harassing them: > > abuse@... > > 3. Mindspring will warn LT to stop and if there is a repeated instance of her > sending more unwanted email, Mindspring will dump her as a customer. > > I have heard that Mindspring is especially strict about this policy. > > Also, it's a safe action because if the complainent requests that LT not be > told their name, the ISP will respect this. So LT will not know who complained > because she has sent so many harassing emails. > > In this way, her harassment of the members of the Mini-Gastric Bypass group > should either stop or else she'll get booted from Mindspring. > > Perhaps the above information can be distributed to new members of the > Mini-Gastric bypass list as they join the list. Right now, the Mini-gastric > bypass mailing list being closed due to the harassment of one person has hurt > people who wish to join to find out more about the MGB but may not want to > give all their info (like ss #) if just in research mode. Also, from a few > posts on the (so-called) MGB-truth mailing list, I have seen that people have > selected other types of surgery because of harassing and untrue emails sent > them by LT. It's probably time someone took some steps to halt LT's > inappropriate actions and this seems one good step (there may be others). > > I know this will work because she complained that my messages disagreeing with > her slander of Dr Rutledge were harassing her, and my provider gave me a > warning, and it didn't matter that the content of my messages was not > inappropriate - nothing mattered but one person had complained. Perhaps my > negative experience can be turned into a positive and this same rule can be > used to stop LT from sending harassing messages to members of the Mini-Gastric > Bypass list. > > The regulation this falls under is evidentally, RFC2143. > > respectfully, > Sue Widemark > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 14, 2000 Report Share Posted November 14, 2000 GREAT! YEAH FOR SUE!!! Looks like LT is BUSTED!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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